Twenty-five years ago, the Magnetic Fields unleashed 69 Love Songs, a sprawling, three-disc ode to popular music’s most famous kind of composition that traversed synth-pop, folk, jazz, country, and, of course, indie rock. For the first time in almost just as many years, Stephin Merritt and company will play the whole record, home to such hits as “I Think I Need a New Heart” and the Peter Gabriel-covered “The Book of Love,” over two nights. Tickets to Tuesday are largely sold out, but if you’re willing to accept a measly 35-song set on Wednesday evening, snag yours now. Merritt will also pop over to AFS Cinema on Monday, Oct. 21 for a special screening of 2010 doc Strange Powers: Stephin Merritt and the Magnetic Fields. – Carys Anderson
